| Cultural Amnesia | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Clive James |
| Cover artist | Peter Behrens |
| Subject(s) | essays |
| Publisher | MacMillan UK W.W. Norton (US) |
| Publication date | 2007 |
| Media type | hardcover |
| Pages | 876 |
Cultural Amnesia is a book of biographical essays by Clive James, first published in 2007. The U.K. title, published by MacMillan, is Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time, while the U.S. title, published by W.W. Norton, is Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History and the Arts[1][2] The cover illustration was adapted from a work by German Modernist designer Peter Behrens.
The book is series of essays on people whose apothegms James has been fascinated by, most of them from the 20th century. The chapters are in alphabetical order of the subject's name, as follows: